favor and against this assumption and test in our own experiment, whether and which personality factors are useful in …

each other. The contract may contain two types of incentives for the agent to work hard: a bonus and a threat of dismissal …This paper studies how social relationships between managers and employees affect relational incentive contracts. To …

altruism sometimes provides a net incentive to report performance truthfully, rather than to bias evaluations upward. The …

We conduct a field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize …

incentive schemes workers are exposed to. We combine these two stylized facts and hypothesize that men and women differ in how … they rate their co-worker relationships when they work under individual incentives, group incentives, or a combination of … in the Netherlands. We find correlational evidence that, in the absence of individual incentives, group incentives …

distorting effect on the agent's effort allocation as incentive pay based on an incongruent performance measure. If the principal …

's effort and ability are complements. We show that the manager has an incentive to exaggerate the junior's ability. We discuss …

This paper studies wage structure characteristics and their incentive effects within one firm. Based on personnel … have a clear incentive effect, consistent with a key – not yet tested – prediction of the tournament model …